Media and Resources
On this page, you’ll find coverage of the Workers’ Campaign for UPP Divestment in the media, as well as informational resources.
August 5, 2025: Just Peace Advocates
UPP and Fonds FTQ Fund Genocide: A New Analysis on Two Public Pension Plans
A new analysis by Just Peace Advocates breaks down some of UPP’s complicit investments by their nature.
July 2, 2025: WCFUD Report
Report: Towards Responsible Investing in the University Pension Plan
This Workers’ Campaign for UPP Divestment Report compiles the information on UPP’s investments that we presented during info-sessions in 2024 and 2025. It provides a general, shareable overview of our campaign and demands.
June 9, 2025: CBC News Toronto
What happens when a university faculty votes to divest from war?
April 29, 2025: The Bullet
Divest Ontario’s University Pension Plan from Genocide, Occupation and Apartheid
Why do UN resolutions count when, as on 23rd February 2023, they “deplore the dire human rights and humanitarian consequences of the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine,” but not when, as on 18th September 2024, they demand that Israel “bring to an end without delay its unlawful presence in the OPT”? Buried in the UPP’s investment exclusions seems to be another, familiar exclusion: their silence on Palestine is blaring.
